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4. Wes Craven Wanted To Prove He Was More Than A Horror Director - Music Of The Heart

1999's Music of the Heart is a major outlier in late, great director Wes Craven's career: it's the only non-horror/thriller film in his entire filmography, and also his only film to score any Oscar nominations, for Best Actress (Meryl Streep) and Best Original Song.

The film casts Streep as Roberta Guaspari, a music teacher who fights for music education funding in New York City's public school system.

Though the film is often forgotten among Craven's more iconic genre joints such as A Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream, it is in fact a film Craven fought to make for many years, to battle the belief among some critics that he was a "one trick pony" filmmaker.

After the success of Scream, Craven was finally in a position to branch out, shooting the film in-between the second and third Scream movies before returning to genre business as usual.

Though hardly held up as a gemstone of either Craven or Streep's careers, Music of the Heart was praised as an affecting drama with a strong Streep performance, while also proving Craven capable of delivering something completely unlike anything else in his career.